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What a wonderful encapsulation of Christ-likeness, caring for others because we are made in God's image. And what wonderful words of comfort, whether we are in pain or caring for those in pain, or both.
Advent Intercessions: Praying for those for whom joy is a hard word to hear, and harder to feel
"We bring good tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people." ... Advent God, who comes to us in love, peace and joy, We thank you for love that nourishes and sustains our hearts, for peace that enables us to live in friendship with others for joy that illumines and inspires our lives. ...
...but that's not what we are like, unless we make that continual effort to cast off our "mistaken self-confidence" and let grace work in us, all of which, I'm beginning to realize, has to be repeated daily, or even momentarily. Why is that? Shouldn't I be able to take this understanding I embrace in reading and translate it into my actual daily life much more readily and thoroughly, especially after decades of knowing?
The radical disconnect between managerial leadership and the graced community
What is the connection between leadership and management? And what then is the connection between leadership, management and grace? And finally what is the connection between leadership, management, grace and an authentic way of being the Body of Christ in the world? My problem is one of resista...
This is meaningful to me precisely because there are "...uncertainties...shaken foundations...questions and hesitations..." and still we are told, and we have known, the Love is there.
The Love that doesn't depend on me believing in it all the time
Now and again life fills up when you aren't looking and then overflows all over your other plans. This blog has been one of the casualties of a week that has been busy, mostly away from home. C S Lewis once complained about the disruptive impact of his brother's alcoholism on Lewis's plans for ...
This just makes me want to drop my daily work for more important things like sitting and reading, going for a walk, doing some nature photography, listening to music....but my vacuum cleaner is calling and I have ignored it for too many days!
Later, later...
Mary Oliver's poetry - a tonic for the heart - and the conscience
Need a poem. Here's one. A prose poem - but the distinction is about form, not substance. This is a poem. Actually, this is a really good poem. ............................. What I have learned so far Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the...
I would like to encourage you to continue your blog, mostly for selfish reasons. I can't remember the google search topic I typed in some time last year, which originally led me to your blog, but I have greatly benefited from checking your site daily. Last week I forwarded your "Though I may stumble..." entry to several friends, for just one example. So much appreciated.
You have mentioned many authors I enjoy reading, and have led me to many new ones (new for me).
In the tangle of my mind, your blog has helped to shine clarity and encouragement, to work at developing this "life of the mind". I also do need to work harder at rooting this in lived out service, I admit.
I like your expression "economics of the Kingdom". A good way to re-focus daily.
I'll be back tomorrow!
Hermina, aka poetreehugger
Living Wittily and serving God in the tangle of our minds
To serve God wittily in the tangle of our minds.... This post was written three years ago when I started blogging as Living Wittily. It's based on the motto at the head of the blog page, words of Sir Thomas More, from Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. I read it every now and then to check i...
The truth of it makes it beautiful. Thank you.
"...more important than what I know, is that I am known, and by whom I am known" ...may that comfort me this day and affect the way I see everyone I meet.
"Though I may stumble in my going, Thou dost not fall."
As the rain hides the stars, as the autumn mist hides the hills, as the clouds veil the blue of the sky, so the dark happenings of my lot hide the shining of thy face from me. Yet, if I may hold thy hand in the darkness, it is enough. Since I know that, though I may stumble in my going, thou d...
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Inspiring. What a good example of following Christ by going against the flow of society.
What can you tell us about the difference between contentment and laziness? This topic came up in our Bible study group recently. In a society where busy-ness is applauded, how can I tell when I am okay in my contentment and when I should be searching for some hands-on service to be active in?
Dorothy Day and the price of coffee
"Nothing but the best, and the best is none too good for God's poor. What a delightful thing it is to be boldly profligate, to ignore the price of coffee and to go on serving good coffee and the finest bread to the long line of destitute who come to us." This is Dorothy Day at her subversiv...
Merry Christmas! I have enjoyed reading your blog daily, for the inspirations related to "reading and thinking". I keep discovering new (to me) authors and writers, and exploring familiar ones, through your uplifting and thought-provoking column. Many thanks from the Canadian Prairies.
The central mystery of Christmas and the human predicament
This blog began as a way of sharing much of what I think, feel and believe about many things. I've kept it going because it combines the discipline of writing with the fun of sharing. It's a forum for theological reflection on the stuff that happens, and also a place for exploring with other...
"The willingness to walk in the path of another". This is a satisfying (feels more like Christ's message) contrast to the common type of email forward from well-meaning friends listing generalized threats and dangers from generalized forces "outside" the so-called-Christian western social establishment. What do you do when you receive those forwarded messages that are basically a venom-filled rant against someone "other"?
Love of enemy and redemptive risk-taking compassion
Sometimes the dilemmas of yesterday come back to teach us the truths we missed first time round. In the early 1960's there was a big debate in the US on "shelter ethics". Sparked by a priest who defended the ordinary citizen's right to use loaded weapons to keep other people, neighbour or stra...
Thank you. I follow your post daily, and enjoy the theological and poetic thought-provocation you provide.
"The fact that your subject may be very important in itself does not necessarily mean that what you have written about it is important." This could lead to some valuable self-evaluation, always a profitable exercise as a Christian.
Thomas Merton: Warnings for careless theological bloggers
Thomas Merton on integrity and care in writing. I've broken his two paragraphs into six guidelines that should help quality assure hastily posted blogposts - or at least raise embarrassment levels amongst the pious but careless. And in fairness to Merton, some of his strictures were directed a...
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